the solidarity of orisha practitioners

maferefun egun!  maferefun orisa!

Around 2005 as a result of a somewhat historic drumming at at Riverbank State Park in New York, a movement began by Orisha devotees in the United States to wear whites on fridays as regular ritual offering to the spirits. For those of us in Orisha based traditions around the world, the wearing of white clothing from head to toe is a ritual. This simple yet powerful ceremony allows us constant communion with the deities/divine energies of our theological foundation wether we are in sacred or profane spaces. What happened as a result of the original White Friday movement was a certain solidarity among practitioners across lineages and cultural lines. Though it seems that in 2013 that formalized movement seems to have lost some of its momentum, I am revisiting this practice as a way of conjuring the synergy of that era and pushing it forward. I am Maurice Sangosanya (Oni Shango) living and loving in Denver Colorado, and while I was not one of the curators of the original movement i want to invite you to celebrate #whitefridays. At this time I'd like to invite all priests, aborishas and aleyos (non initiatied devotees of Orisha) to join in this act solidarity alongside me and a couple friends across the globe. There is strength and numbers and power in us all...